Login or register (free and only takes a few minutes) to participate in this question.You will also have access to many other tools and opportunities designed for those who have language-related jobs (or are passionate about them). Participation is free and the site has a strict confidentiality policy.
French to English translations [PRO]
Archaeology / Angkor site | | French term or phrase: des prospections de sol de type non-destructif et global | 5. Le projet est conçu suivant trois axes permettant d’interroger la question du fait urbain au cours de l’histoire angkorienne.
Il se développe grâce à un protocole méthodologique fondé sur des prospections de sol de type non-destructif et global, appliqué de manière systématique sur la totalité du site. |
| veratekKudoZ activityQuestions: 475 ( 1 open) ( 1 without valid answers) ( 14 closed without grading) Answers: 586
France
| | Local time: 18:02
|
| | non-destructive archaelogical dig/data-gathering | Explanation:
means I think that other modern methods can also be used besides just the trowel
by A Boato - Related articles
It was born, in fact, inside the digging archaeology, but it developed ... several analytical and non destructive methods for the archaeological studies of ...
www.ndt.net/article/wcndt00/papers/idn365/idn365.htm - Cached - Similar
2 Oct 2003 ... New “non-destructive” sensing technologies are transforming archaeology ... An archaeological dig cannot be undone. ...
www.economist.com/node/2099826?story_id=2099826 - Cached
Usually digging at an archaeological site must be done by hand though ..... geophysical methods can be most useful since they are non-destructive and rapid. ...
ldolphin.org/Geoarch.html - Cached - Similar
In archaeology, the term excavation simply means the 'dig'. ... Geophysical probing on archaeological sites is a rapid non-invasive, non-destructive data ...
www.archaeologyexpert.co.uk/FieldArchaeologyCategory.html - Cached - Similar
--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 29 mins (2011-05-29 22:18:32 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------
From May to December 2009 it is displaying The Ancestors of Angkor, ... time to show the public how the objects in an archaeological dig are discovered, ...
www.khmerculture.net/ancestorsangkorexhibit.htm - Cached
--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 3 days11 hrs (2011-06-02 09:00:47 GMT) Post-grading
--------------------------------------------------
glad to help |
| Selected response from:
 gallagy2
Ireland
| Grading comment Thank you.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer |
| |
| Discussion entries: 0 |
|---|
Automatic update in 00:
|
9 hrs confidence:   non-destructive (ground) surveys
Explanation:
The first thing to note here is "de sol" which is stating the obvious. Could this be a mild error for "au sol" as in "ground survey", the author wishing to make it clear that s/he didn't carry out an "aerial survey"? Only one person knows the answer to that question...
I think you can forget about "global" in the English because "survey" covers that idea admirably.
The group's first experience of field-walking, a non-destructive survey method,
www.southwellarchaeology.org.uk/
Fieldwork will comprise careful ground survey and standard recording of all archaeological remains encountered.
www.science.ulster.ac.uk/sites/gradschool/IMG/.../ES-Forsyt...
The extract below explains why "dig" or "excavation" should not be used to translate "prospection":
La prospection peut être définie comme une méthode globale d'appréhension de l'ensemble des traces des aménagements apportés par les sociétés humaines à leur environnement physique et vivant. Elle constitue une démarche en amont de la fouille, puisqu'elle permet de répondre à la question : « où est-il pertinent de fouiller » ? Les outils de la prospection sont variés et complémentaires : observations, études des documents anciens, mesures sur le terrain. ... Contrairement à la fouille, la prospection ne détruit pas l'objet d'étude et elle permet de répondre, sans le moindre dommage, à beaucoup des questions que se pose l'archéologue.
http://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/archeologie-methodes-...
| Graham macLachlan
Local time: 18:02
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 4
|
| | Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you for your suggestion and comments. I agree that "dig" should be avoided in this case. I used data-gathering, and would have used survey as well.
|
| | Login to enter a peer comment (or grade) |
Return to KudoZ list
| Changes made by editors |
|---|
| Jun 2, 2011 - Changes made by gallagy2: | | Created KOG entry | KudoZ term => KOG term |
|
|
| | | | X Sign in to your ProZ.com account... | | | | |
| KudoZ™ translation helpThe KudoZ network provides a framework for translators and others to assist each other with translations or explanations of terms and short phrases. See also: Search millions of term translations  |
The translation workplace 
